Motor-operated shaver



Nov. 6, 1945. c. w. HOLCOMB MOTOR-OPERATED SHAVER- Filed July '7, 1944 Inventor 04/21. M fiac'ama,

Patented Nov. 6, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MOTQB-Oiiflifltl) SHAVER Carl W. Holcomb, Camp Davis, N. 0.

Application July "I, 1944, Serial No. 543,909

2 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in motoroperated shavers, of the so-called electric razor type, the primary object in view being to equip such shavers with means for disposing of hair clippings in a manner such that the clippings are accumulated in the casing of the shaver while said shaver is being used and until such time as it may be expedient to remove the same, whereby the usual objectionable depositing of hair clippings on the clothing, or person, is obviated and shaving thus rendered cleaner and more sanitary.

- Another object is to equip such shavers for attaining the objectives above set forth without necessitating additional moving parts in the shaver, or in other ways increasing the cost of manufacture thereof.

Other and subordinate objects are also comprehended by my invention, all of which, together with the precise nature of my improvements, will 'be readily understood when the succeeding description and claims are read with reference to vided with a pair of elongated recesses III in the opposite sides 4 thereof, of groove-like form and extending along said edges 4 with the .ends there-' of terminating short of the ends of the casing I. The grooves I3 are provided with bottoms I4 of reticulated material, such as fine screening. A

a motor-operated shaver which, with the exceptions presently noted, is of a well known type comprising an elongated casing I formed of a pair of duplicate sections 2 mating flat in the median plane of the casing and secured together by screws 3, the sections 2 being shaped to impartv the cutting end and containing a suitable fixed,

electric motor 8 the armature shaft 9 of which extends forwardly in the longitudinal center of said casing I, through a suitable channel I0 in I the casing, with its front end operatively connected by a crank II thereon to the reciprocatin cutting element '6, and its rear end joumaled in a suitable bearing I2 in said chamber I.

pair of suitably curved and elongated cover plates.

I5 are hinged at one end to the casing I, as at I6, at the rear ends of the recesses I2 for closing flush with the sides 4 over said recesses, and which form, together with the recesses I3, and

bottom It, storage chambers for hair clippings to be disposed of.

A pair of curved inlet ducts II are Provided in the casing I upon opposite sides of its longitudinal center and which open at the cutting end of said easing into the reciprocating cutting section 6 and communicate at the rear ends thereof with the front ends of the recesses I3. Also, a pair of discharge conduits I8 are provided in the casing I upon opposite sides of the longitudinal center thereof which extend along the bottoms I4 behind the same and open at rear ends thereof onto the sides I of said casing in the rear of the recesses I 3.

the shaver is in use, the fan I9 draws the clippings which pass into the reciprocating cutting section 8 from said section and blows the cuttings into the grooves I3, or, in other words, the described storage chambers, the air passing int said grooves I3 with the clippings escaping through the bottoms I 4 of said grooves and into the discharge ducts I8 to-be forced out of said ducts. The clippings accumulated may be disposed of at any timeby opening the cover plates, I5 and emptying the grooves l3 or storage chambers.

According to my invention, the casing I is pro- The fan I9, in addition to functioning as described, alsoserves to cool the cutting head as will be clear.

The foregoing will, it is believed, suiilce to impart a clear understanding of my invention without further explanation. I

Manifestly, the invention, as described, is sllS ceptible of modification without departing from the inventive concephand right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is: a

1. In a shaver of the class described, an elongated fiat casing forming a handle, a hollow cutting head at one end of the casing including a reciprocating "cutting element, a pair of grooves extending along opposite side edges of said casing,

with bottoms of reticulated material and forming 2. In a shaver of the class described, an elongated flat casing forming a handle, a hollow cutting head at one end of thecasing including a reciprocating cutting element. a pair of grooves extending along opposite side edges of said casing, with bottoms of reticulated material and formin storage chambers for cuttings, inlet means in the casing establishing communication between said head and one end of said grooves, a pair of discharge ducts in the casing extending along said bottoms behind said grooves to the other end oi the casing, and a motor-driven suction fan in said casing operative to create a. forward draft through said head and means and said chambers,

said means comprising a pair of ducts into both of which said fan extends.

7 CARL W. HOLCOMB. 

